peatff
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Everything posted by peatff
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Bet somebody with no saw would have been glad to get that.
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It looks a bit wasted on that twig though
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Timber used to be transported by river to the mills for processing in Canada and on the Mississipi.
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Why, is he going to eat it ?
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Is it one that takes you to a russian site ? Browser hijack or similar.
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Some people like house plants Is it an indoor climbing school ?
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I bought a 4 ton splitter for £150 on ebay last week and split some Oak with it. As above cut the bigger pieces down with the saw before splitting and it was no hardship. I split some Birch about 10" round and it did that easily enough. You soon get the hang of reading the wood for which way the knots run and it's a lot easier than the maul.
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Daft and irritating terminology used in this industry
peatff replied to Goaty's topic in General chat
Tim Healy hates that more. -
I use a 21" triangular bow saw for anything up to about 4", I'm not a regular tree worker though just a back yard firewood collector.
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Daft and irritating terminology used in this industry
peatff replied to Goaty's topic in General chat
That's a favourite of mine, if it was 1 in 10 it would be "they've absolutely decimalised the place " I often drop a wrong word in for comic effect to wind my mate up like " the pheasants are revolting" or something similar. -
I made my own little trailer many years ago with 500kg indespension units and just big enough to sit a 48"x40" pallet in the bottom. It has done countless tip runs and fetched sand and ballast for numerous projects as well as gardening supplies. Unbraked does not automatically allow you 750kg, you are also governed by the weight of the towing vehicle and it's maximum nose weight. From the AA site Unbraked trailers The maximum you may tow – combined weight of trailer and load – using an unbraked trailer is 750 kg. The towing vehicle must have a kerbside weight at least twice the loaded weight of the trailer. I also fitted an arrester cable on mine as there was a nasty accident with a child in a pushchair killed by a runaway trailer in Heage near here a few years ago.
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Daft and irritating terminology used in this industry
peatff replied to Goaty's topic in General chat
It annoys me when someone says that something was done perfectly well. Was it done well or was it done perfectly ? Also I would of done instead of I would have done should be fixed by auto correct nowadays. -
I made a little hatchet handle from some Beech which was the frame of an old sofa someone had dumped. An axe is something big that needs two hands to wield, a hatchet is for chopping a few sticks or shaping wood before I whittle something.
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I think the length of chip depends on what wood you are cutting as well. It's just my observation but rip cutting some thick Birch before splitting made what were more like turnings with my 3/8" chain but doing the same in Oak made short pieces almost like granules. This is with fresh sharp chain.
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Went out for a walk this afternoon and spotted this Sycamore growing on a bank at the side of a little lane down into the fields. It's almost not in the ground there's that little soil round it.
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Put some Birch in as well, they seem to do alright down by the brook near us. Just don't put their feet in the water.
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You don't richen up the oil you richen up the fuel to air mixture. If you put more oil in there is less fuel to burn so a leaner mix (the oil doesn't burn like the fuel, it's there to lubricate) I don't understand how the air leak caused an over rich mixture Eddy, if it's the impulse line split it won't pump fuel so won't run.
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Nobody said " a ladder "
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You mean this 40" bar I just bought isn't going to work on the 135 then
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Felled tree converted to logs in situ - effect on cost?
peatff replied to Sylvia's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I have a shoulder problem which is aggravated by splitting with the maul if I do too much so the other day I saw some 4 ton hydraulic splitters like the Machine Mart ones on ebay for £150 and only about 10 miles from us so I decided to splash out on one. It's not the most powerful thing but I split some unseasoned Oak with it and some well seasoned Birch and it really made the job easy. I think the only way you could kill yourself with it would be to try to swallow it -
They don't take anything that involves work, it's against their principles. If they can't sell it straight on they don't want to know.
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Years ago I used to help a TV aerial installer at weekends and one day he froze on the roof crawler, I had to go up and talk him down as he was having palpitations. He packed up not long after that and set two younger lads on to do the leg work. It's not always rational and there's nothing to get hung up about.
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We delivered a bike to Birmingham and I noticed a lot of roadside timber, pity we couldn't stop on the way back and fill the van up.
